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Blue Rock Springs Creek is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km) [2] stream that rises on Sulfur Springs Mountain in southwestern Solano County, California. A bicycle trail is positioned along the creekside in some of the lower reaches. [3] Water quality is impaired in Blue Rock Springs Creek due to historic cinnabar extraction in this watershed.
Sulphur Springs Mountain (or Sulfur Springs Mountain) is a mountain in southwestern Solano County, California. The slopes can be accessed via hiking trails emanating from Blue Rock Springs Park in the city of Vallejo. Cinnabar deposits were extracted from this location in the early 1900s at Hastings Mine and St. John's Mine.
Vallejo was once home of the Coast Miwok as well as Suisunes and other Patwin Native American tribes. There are three confirmed Native American sites located in the rock outcrops in the hills above Blue Rock Springs Park. The California Archaeological Inventory has indicated that the three Indian sites are located on Sulphur Springs Mountain. [9]
Rindler Creek is a stream that rises on Sulfur Springs Mountain in southwestern Solano County, California. A stream restoration project has been conducted to reverse the damage of cattle overgrazing. [2] One goal of this project is to enhance habitat suitable for the endangered Northern Red-legged Frog.
The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state's crop-rich Central Valley is set to open June 12 as California's 281st state park. California announces first new state park in a decade ...
Giant Rock with an Oldsmobile pictured in the Los Angeles Times in May 1937. A caption reads, in part: "A wind sock, fluttering from a huge whitewashed rock overlooking the Mojave Desert near ...
Near the same area on July 4 of the following year, the killer struck again, killing Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin and injuring Michael Mageau at the Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo, immediately next to Benicia. Northeast of the town's residential areas an oil refinery was built and completed in 1969 by Humble Oil (later Exxon Corporation).
Indie-rock band Sports Team armed robbery in Vallejo. / Credit: Sports Team/Instagram "Just been robbed at gun point 10 minutes into the US tour," the text accompanying the video read.